Ski-U-Mah (magazine)

One of the first issues of Ski-U-Mah, from December 1929.

Ski-U-Mah (pronounced sky-you-ma), was the college humor magazine of the University of Minnesota ^[1] (and named for a U. of M. sports cheer) from about early 1920s to 1950. The magazine was affiliated to the Sigma Delta Chi fraternity in the university. ^[2] It was modeled on Harvard Lampoon . ^[3]

Its most prominent writer was Max Shulman, ^[4] who later wrote the stories that became the television program The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis .

References

1. Douglass K. Daniel (December 3, 2009). Harry Reasoner: A Life in the News. University of Texas Press. p. 22. ISBN   978-0-292-78236-5 . Retrieved December 27, 2015.
2. C. L. Sonnichsen (2000). Ten Texas Feuds. UNM Press. p. 10. ISBN   978-0-8263-2299-9 . Retrieved December 27, 2015.
3. R. Dixon Smith (January 1, 1985). Lost in the Rentharpian Hills: Spanning the Decades with Carl Jacobi . Popular Press. p.  9. ISBN   978-0-87972-287-6 . Retrieved December 27, 2015.
4. "Shulman, Max". American National Biography Online. Retrieved December 27, 2015.

• Shulman, Max, Max Shulman's Guided Tour of Campus Humor, Hanover House, Garden City, New York, 1955.